declares its military campaign in mali a success so far the questions arise of alleged human rights violations in the west african nation. israel faces an international backlash over its alleged strike on a damascus for search center in syria which reportedly killed at least two people.

and the u.s. political elite endorses a new secretaries for state and defense with neither expected to change much and america's foreign policy. in the headlines over the week here on r t today. welcome to the weekly. now the friendship backed intervention in mali has been mobbed by alleged human rights abuses with activists accusing the joint forces of killing civilians torture and ethnic reprisals by the local army and with all the media attention now focused on the visit of president francois hollande information about the reported atrocities it's very hard to get but we did manage to get an exclusive report from one of the war ravaged areas. david cameron is getting sucked into something that i don't

think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we then have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we've been dragged into this the danger is the more you send any troops in trainers over anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what are termed to be insurgent forces what then happens you then go after those groups you then have a greater british military involvement we may well be in for a quite a long high tech surveillance and warfare being conducted by the french and possibly was britain and others. against people that know the terrain very well

it'll be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. now the french president during his visit to mali said that terrorism is actually being repelled but not wiped out. reiterated the operation will go on for as long as necessary but the u.k. joining the efforts by pledging several hundred troops for non-combat support germy corben a labor m.p. of the u.k. parliament says britain could be in for a very lengthy stay in mali. well you my little focus is not on the be here today molly's attention is gripped by the

visit of president francois hollande to team group two where the french military's victory over islamist terrorists was celebrated so triumphantly in this mob the area we've discovered allegations of war crimes information about them is under the control of mali's military government. i think it's getting more and more difficulty talk to people a lot of. human rights activists who are trying to identify witnesses are saying that people climbing up and feeling the heat they are scared to speak a lot of people here. are very sure fool the malian army seems to be doing whatever it can to prevent people from speaking to open when i was there but this government took advantage of the media's interest in all and for the first time visited the city's worst affected by hostilities today in the town of qana we were surprised by the arrival of mamadou cd bed the minister for humanitarian action and solidarity

this was an attempt to bring the bomb a call government closer to people who regard the capital as remote from them with this visit in this event staged by politicians coincided with the publication of reports by international organizations such as amnesty international and human rights watch alleging atrocities crimes and violence on both sides for instance in qana several civilians were reportedly killed in french air force shelling of we tried to interview the injured however were unable to obtain evidence in a community that has until now been strictly regulated by the military authorities and he said. the ministry says an investigation is underway has got so far no evidence has been provided so let the judicial system do its job in this all of these government its people and military are well aware of current events and we know that we cannot play this game. the government has been attempting to assert political power despite very poor infrastructure today we spoke to an army private

on his way back from he told us he hadn't been paid or properly for fifteen days if this war continues there will be a need for justice after a comprehensive internal investigation rather than heartfelt celebrations and demonstrations of power. or less i shift our attention out of out of egypt and turmoil going into its second week now and we'll position stepping up calls for president mohamed morsi to resign the latest wave of violent protests so one person killed and more than fifty injured in clashes just outside the gates of the presidential palace over sixty people have died throughout the country since the latest protests began well the egyptian prime minister meanwhile had his car pelted with stones and bottles in cairo's tahrir square that's according to local media and president morsi warned of decisive measures in dealing with the unrest the military enjoying expanded powers during a month long state of emergency imposed last week by the protestors accuse the

islamist leader of betraying the two thousand and eleven uprising the claim he denies opposition activist. says that the government's actions are heavily influenced by the military. the surface interpretation of what's happening definitely that there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military that's on the surface however there are pieces of what's going on some of the intimidation goes as far as that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that big can have a. grip over this the way it's going and intensify their presence militarily over there probably don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area. handover to civilian oversight of the canal rather than military

oversight of the canal according to the new constitution something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory stature now it has more of an executive that has more military members on this board than civilians which outnumbers the civilians including be commander in chief the president which means they can force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they have the commander in chief say that he will declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas. watching the weekly on r t it was on wednesday the news of israel's air strike on syria broke and the arab league slammed israel for its alleged to air strikes describing it as a flagrant aggression and a violation of syria's sovereignty and a moscow so that if the attack is confirmed it will be a no use of the un charter syria says israeli jets destroyed a military worse sent

a need to massacres killing at least two western diplomats and syrian rebels claimed the target was an arms convoy near lebanon's border destined for hezbollah militants for the first time israel's defense minister on sunday suggested that it was behind the attack at least as russia's foreign minister met the leader of the opposition syrian national coalition on the sidelines of a munich security conference a both parties agreed there's a mountain to climb before negotiations between rebels and the government can happen he's pretty has the story. this is the biggest security conference really in the world and arguably syria is one of the biggest security issues in the world right now. down for me seeing more as ours who's the leader of the syrian national coalition the foreign minister of russia coming away seemingly quite happy for the meeting he said upon his arrival back in moscow that swell. the

syrian national coalition seem to willing to speak with the current syrian government citing the fact that the whole reason that the national coalition exists in the first place is because they had previously refused to talk to president assad's however sergey lavrov did err on the side of caution saying that there was no guarantees that this dialogue would take place at the point that it's the coalition is so fragmented he could hardly really agree with themselves never mind sit down to open the gates see ations with the current syrian government syria featured very highly in the address that was given by surrogate love rove to the these. conference he also told directly to russia's western partners as called for unity and trying to bring in an end to the violence and bring discussion to the forefront rather than talk of international intervention he does however raise a few questions towards russia's western partners suggesting there was it worth

while pursuing their mantra of regime change in countries like syria at the expense of terrorist acts being cast a blind eye to as those acts take place against the civilian population and the the syrian army we also saw around two thousand people gather elsewhere in munich in protest against what they say is they just continuing growth across europe that was relatively peaceful but it was also a topic that had been touched on by surrogate lover of in his address where he said that there was no real need for nato to expand in the way that it was in those two thousand or so people in the city also voicing the similar opinion. politics for a. good thing. the meeting between the leader of the self-proclaimed syrian national coalition and the foreign

ministers of russia and the wrong an acknowledgement by the leader of the syrian national coalition that the syrian government it's not going to be defeated on the military battlefield and in his acknowledgement that thousands of syrian civilians have died unnecessarily and because outside players in the region turkey saudi arabia qatar have been falling in weapons and cash so the militants in syria i think circle lateral the russian foreign minister said last year how surprised he was by the way he did say over the phone by a syrian opposition in coolie to sip shore kristen's sat to go from power to resign to step down except that's not the way diplomacy works that's not the way peace processes are put together hillary clinton about a year ago accused russian government of having blood on its hands oh unfortunately it's more the countries saudi arabia qatar and saudi arabia who have the blood of

thousands upon thousands of syrian civilians on their hands because of their own geo strategic ambitions to see that removal of presence is sad and the syrian government's. it's good to have you with us here and just to come your way in well just a few minutes from now. we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become we talked to a former cia officer who became a whistle blower on america's torture program and is now waiting to so two years in prison. ministry headquarters turns into a battleground hundreds of protesters rolled with police. for.

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this is the weekly here on out c.r. rule research and moscow the us political establishment is continuing to endorse new chiefs senator john kerry was sworn in as u.s. secretary of state this week on defense chief nominee chuck hagel was well to many grilled by the sun it sees military force as a last resort in view which is attracted both admiration and criticism among american politicians and some exposed believe that washington is far from finished with its foreign military campaigns ultimately no matter who is in charge at the pentagon and president obama was elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope tim isn't was there with shutting down gitmo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process

is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out of the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being bombarded out of the people that fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that it will ever secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocketbook to spend to keep spending us into oblivion. the first man convicted over america's prison torture program is now waiting to start a two and a half year jail sentence but decorated to cia veteran john kiriakou didn't

interrogate anybody rather a crime was to tell the world about washington's then secret program one of his final interviews before being locked away he told me exactly what he thinks he's being punished for. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing

our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just a part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. this is r.t. still ahead for you are getting that the same treatment as the treated and. constantly targeted by the authorities for treating those in antigovernment

demonstration. on our blog areas government is expected to suspend the russian finance construction of a nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum sore a vote in favor of the project a ballot however was deemed invalid due to a low turnout the government said it was holding construction business can account for the high cost of the plant rather some experts suggest that all gary's allies in europe in the u.s. just fear the project could mean any g. dependence on russia an m.p. or child off says authorities used every angle they could to get a no vote. you have to take in to go that you're using clear nuclear power of approximately forty years and the source of true city in the country also were losing very safe very real world will once in the super bowl year

and usually supporting nuclear power or just. more with. approximately twenty percent just because of the efforts of the ruling majority part to create a special new special commission in the parliament just just for that is that people look to vault to support the nuclear power plant but even in these conditions bulgarian. and over it are to dot com right now iran demonstrates its growing self reliance rolling out a bold design for homemade fighter jets which officials say are designed for defense purposes only but also kind of a radar you can take a much closer glimpse on our website. over there for you just a click away right now it's ready soldiers you take. stun grenades against a group of palestinians who were wrecked at the tent camp in protest at settlement expansion in the west bank are bringing more analysis and background dot com.

into the artsy world of day we go get some of the headlines for you in brief from around the world this hour we'll start with iraq where at least thirty three people have reportedly been killed and seventy injured this after a group of gunmen in a suicide bomber carried out attacks in the northern iraqi city of kirkuk and they were targeting the police headquarters but failed to take control of the compound. group has claimed responsibility for the attack quite yet cookies and ethnically divided city deeply in broiled and sectarian conflict between shia kurdish and sunni factions. and to greece where thousands of supporters of the extreme right golden dawn party marched right past the u.s. embassy in a torch lit procession they were charging anti us and anti turkish slogans to commemorate a border incident that caused a crisis between greece and turkey seventeen years ago at the time a greek helicopter crashed over

a disputed island in the aegean sea the turkish military accused of shooting it down. it was also hit by austerity strikes this week this time protesters were angry at an imminent round of cuts to pay and pensions hundreds battle with police after storming the building of the labor minister's office and lawyer george. says the authorities response was actually part of a new approach. the government has decided to follow up one of the c. of the zero dollar us as it says ideas that is distance to your state measures so we have seen the government to take the medicine measures that they are unconstitutional against the very sentence that makes it now we have seen to order it will release very violently against a generally peaceful and kind of the mysterious where only seem the last three or four weeks i complain of for propaganda that i have to convince us that now the

world has become best the reason i don't believe that this is true is exactly because we are following this same set of policies of was thirty minutes of the first three here us has condemned greece plus five of slow death that this recession of the economy went like scene of the economy and a third source of measures but when i see some of the population and also look at that the source of rights i think that as far as what we're following this said of course is there's no school for us. this is odd say a medical workers in crisis lockbox rayna say they're being targeted by the authorities for treating injured protesters doctors say the retribution has been severe on the government insists it's investigating the allegations of these i'll accept a chef skillets of those at risk just for simply trying to help. not to dive was

among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the or forty's turned their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first aid they deny. health care to the patients and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such. decided to punish those doctors i was taken to a place for ten days that i didn't know where it was. all that time i was blindfolded and handcuffed i was in a solitary confinement for about twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up and there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my thought she she was beating me and she looked at me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then

this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospitals grounds into the scene of the rally the sound money hospital is bahrain's leading medical institution and that's where most of the arrests have been made after those events it now looks like a fortress guarded heavily by the right police and not everybody can get in human rights activists say if you had suffered for speaking out against the regime and decided to come here for treatment you could make matters even worse for yourself anyone who was injured from the protests they cannot go to the hospital because they would be arrested in the gated beaten and taken to the jail last year many protester and in jail where torture insults and money we have a story and testimony of people and protesters being tortured and the jail but in my country protester were tortured inside. britain not who was charged with treason and sentenced to fifteen years in prison before being acquitted because of what she

believed to be international pressure on bahrain's government the fate of many other doctors remains unclear the person who allegedly tortured not and others princes. has been officially charged by police she denies all allegations against her meanwhile the guy. woman stands resumed that the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do. these doctors managed to control the emergency unit in the first floor of the hospital and started to perform political acts when a hospital is journeyed to a base for political ethic work this is a real disaster we had an unbiased committee investigating the hospital eight condemn the acts of these doctors and the case against one of the members of the world family may seem as an indication that bahrain's government has bowed to the negative global reaction with the doctor scandal being far from the only torture accusation c.c.t.v. cameras have been installed at all prisons in

a move to become more transparent according to the authorities but with protests in the gulf states still continuing and accusations of human rights violations intensifying the opposition is still wondering what happens in the places where the cameras cannot see. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. ok you know just a few minutes here on to you we have a special report on those suffering from birth holabird disease and how the fragile victims deal with these tough times of life. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality

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